Given how modern "AI" works, There is a certain irony in an AI focused company finding its content slurped up and spat back out with minor tweaks and then feeling blindsided. Do you vet all agents you advertise for how well they pay for all their training data?
What to do when someone clones your site?
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Re: What to do when someone clones your site?
#12Given how modern "AI" works, There is a certain irony in an AI focused company finding its content slurped up and spat back out with minor tweaks and then feeling blindsided. Do you vet all agents you advertise for how well they pay for all their training data?
Thank you. Agreed.
With the new rush of LLMs being everywhere, copying and pasting will be common practice.
Trying to protect something that is unprotected like open information while benefitting from this exact transaction is a great irony.
It's just a bad business idea. If OP wants to make a directory it would make much more sense to open-source it and accept it will be continuously churned by AI
Re: What to do when someone clones your site?
#13If they’re using images you’re hosting you could always put in a rewrite rule to replace the images with goatse. I used to do this back in the day. It’s not going to solve the problem of cloning but it’ll give you so catharsis and get ‘em to stop it.
Re: What to do when someone clones your site?
#14Find out where the domain is registered with a whois command or goto who.is, then find their copyright/DMCA email and submit a complaint.
For example if it's Namecheap their details to complain are here - https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...
GoDaddy here - https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/ipclaims/copyright/infring...
They should take it down pretty quickly if it's a direct copy!
Re: What to do when someone clones your site?
#15Find out where the domain is registered with a whois command or goto who.is, then find their copyright/DMCA email and submit a complaint. For example if it's Namecheap their details to complain are here - https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx... GoDaddy here - https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/ipclaims/copyright/infring... They should take it down pretty quickly if it's a direct copy!
And DMCA takedowns to the webserver's hosting provider
Re: What to do when someone clones your site?
#16If they’re using images you’re hosting you could always put in a rewrite rule to replace the images with goatse. I used to do this back in the day. It’s not going to solve the problem of cloning but it’ll give you so catharsis and get ‘em to stop it.
Replace images with ads to your own site.
Re: What to do when someone clones your site?
#17Minimal effort means something is trivial to copy.
Googling the concept of your website, I see dozens of options and they all look similar. It’s a relatively simple site concept.
I would suggest putting more effort into coming up with a more original idea. It will be harder to copy when your site has functionality that isn’t just “here is a list of AI agents.”